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Fitted pressure hot and cold water to the marauder, even have a shower on the back now!!

For starters just play with the forestay. Get a base setting for about 10-12 kts and go 5 turns on for big breeze and 5 turns of for very light, and adjust as nessisary for the in between breeze. You cant adjust while racing but do it between races. Allways know where you are with it, normally you just talk about it as '+1' as one turn on and so on and keep talking about it and where you are at all day. You need to go back to base at the end of the day. Have a small bit of batten with marks on it to line up if you loose where you are. This will make a massive difference to your pointing an

Did the first ever rum race on the SR26 'Motorboat'. Put the boat on the grid at stillwater and changed the prop then sailed the boat down on sunday to its new home in westhaven. Full marks to Bri-ski props for modifying my spare folding prop for me in a day and for very cheap! Got the pitch and diameter reduced and now its PERFECT.

My guess would be under 150kg. A thompson 750 is around 80kg from the masthead, they have a 400kg bulb at 2.2m

you got any more photos from the finish boat? I saw some one had the camera on us (Rental) as we came into the finish out of control.

Man Squid, its amazing how much different (better!!) the cav 32 looks with the lower cabin. It really looks like whole different boat. Here is another shot of our 'live aboard'. My parents have now been living on the boat for well over 20 years and all us boys still call her 'home'. Also a shot of the familys whole fleet in hobart, the red one is my eldest brothers boat that he sailed to antactica (snow petrel) and just for squid, another brothers proa that they attempted to sail across the tasman. Video of that trip and on living aboard with kids here, its worth a watch. http://www.

We lived with 7 people (5 boys)on board a 45ft gaff rigged herreshoff for many years. mainly based in marinas around NZ but spent a few years just cruising, (Chatam islands, bay of islands, marlbrough sounds) and they my folks left with the 2 youngest boys in 1995 to protest against the nuclear testing in mururoa and never came back. Now days they still live on the boat but are based in tasmainia and love it over there. Our boat was pretty budget, without a word of a lie we could fly 8 sails at once and there were no jammers or winches (other than the manual anchor winch for a 50kg anchor...)

Sorry Tim I did promise you photos and a video. Here is all the footage put together. The stuff of you guys doesnt look all the exciting but in many ways i think that is really good, it shows how effortless the boat goes fast and just how much faster it can go, where as my boat looks like its at terminal velocity at around 18-20kts! http://www.youtube.com/user/BooBooNZ#p/u/6/TQRypEWiP_A

I think you worded that perfectly Ken.

Here is my 2 cents worth. The question about how long a sail lasts is a hard one to answer, I guess you can kind of relate it back to car tires, it depends on the amount of usage, type of usage and quality of the initial purchase. Tires will last for a long time before they are actually to worn out to get you from A-B anymore, but your performance will be down, and they could blow out at any stage. Even when they fail a warrant they still have a year or so of use out of them before they are completely ruined. For sails its even harder to pin point how long they will last as there as so m

I would think half the issue is the old stretchy cloth, its allways goign to bag up when partially furled no mater what you do to it or how big or small it is. of course the bigger it is the larger the percentage of your sailing will be with it partially furled. modern laminates allow you to go with an almost full size #1 and still hold their shape when furled. we still recomend going with a #2 designed size which is normally 135-140% and raising the clew slightly for better reaching and so you dont have to adjust the car too much. half the problem is that Dacron physically lasts so bloody l